some players retire and then play mug tournaments after a few months or even suddenly have PR maybe that's why not all of them want to be removed

like this brezac challenger guy, there was a thread about his retirement, and *bam* guy comes and plays again few weeks later

or this marino girl from wta, retires due to twitter attacks, drops in the ranking, comes back, uses PR, plays some tournaments and retires again due to twitter attacks... i guess it's safer just to keep a player in

ATP should enforce a rule here. If a player retires from a Commitment position, he should be forced to notify the ATP and should be taken out of the rankings immediately. But ATP should also make this public so that everyone knows it before the next Monday's rankings are out.

Otherwise no, it's impossible to keep track of all retirements, even if a player was famous. For instance, Ferrero is still in the rankings, somewhere below #200. He is not entering any tournament and not occupying any mandatory place (for he has not announced injury, so he does not have a protected ranking), so he can stay there until naturally dropping out.

What do you mean? You wanted Roddick stricken on account of presently non-extistent rules. I wondered how you would introduce a rule to allow for striking him without waiting for his written request. I notice you have yet to launch a realistic alternative. If you find that is too hard, perhaps you'll understand better why the rules are as they are today.

You are one who clearly does not listen to logic or reason in this case, so it's over.